First person – Itziar Pinilla-Macua

ABSTRACT First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Journal of Cell Science, helping researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Itziar Pinilla-Macua is first author on ‘ Cell migration signaling through the EGFR-VAV2-Rac1 pathway is sustained in endosomes’, published in JCS. Itziar is a research instructor in the lab of Alexander Sorkin at Department of Cell Biology, University of Pittsburgh, USA. Her main interest is in understanding how EGF receptor signaling is modulated through endocytosis and degradation, and how it can be used in EGFR-related malignancies.